Memories
Malleable Memory
Study Featuring Bugs Bunny
Shows It's Easy to Alter Memory
By Lee Dye
Special to ABCNEWS.com
June 27 - It has happened to all of us. We remember something out of our
distant past so vividly that it seems like it happened yesterday. Then we
learn that it never happened at all.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scite...ard010627.html
Something to think about.
Big question: so, is it important to dig around in our (imperfect) memories to get to the "root cause" of something we do/feel/believe now; or, is it more important just to work with what's happening now and not worry too much about how it got to be like this.
I'm coming round to the idea that the place to work is how we feel right now about what's happening right now - anything else is just a hallucination 'cos it's either an imperfect memory, or an imagined future event.
I wonder what y'all think?
All the best
Jonathan
Answers:
Hi Johnathan
Interesting discussion, here's my perspective; what if the trauma you suffered long ago is so deeply locked away in the subconscious that the only way to change the present is to first unlock the fear and pain of the past?
I've tried for years to simply use present day techniques to change my processing and I've found I have still been a victim of repressed memories. I thnk it's not the memory that matters, but our ability to process the emotion and that needs to be accessible in some way. What do you think?
Audrey Lowery
www.meditateonline.com
Answers:
Didn't this happen rather a lot, possibly in reverse, in child abuse cases?
Holistic
Answers:
false memory is indeed a common thing, in therapy a person may tell you a story and it may be a false memory , if they beleive it is true then it is to them.
it is important to ask how it os affecting them today and deal with that.
lab
dez
Answers:
Feeling the feelings never changed anything for me, which is a failing of conventional 'talk' therapy. Endlessly reliving a painful event is counterproductive and is what, in my opinion, puts people off therapy.
The event isn't as important as the beliefs you created at that time that later influenced your behavior and emotion. You can eliminate the beliefs without ever reliving the pain and the process will still work.
Study Featuring Bugs Bunny
Shows It's Easy to Alter Memory
By Lee Dye
Special to ABCNEWS.com
June 27 - It has happened to all of us. We remember something out of our
distant past so vividly that it seems like it happened yesterday. Then we
learn that it never happened at all.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scite...ard010627.html
Something to think about.
Big question: so, is it important to dig around in our (imperfect) memories to get to the "root cause" of something we do/feel/believe now; or, is it more important just to work with what's happening now and not worry too much about how it got to be like this.
I'm coming round to the idea that the place to work is how we feel right now about what's happening right now - anything else is just a hallucination 'cos it's either an imperfect memory, or an imagined future event.
I wonder what y'all think?
All the best
Jonathan
Answers:
Hi Johnathan
Interesting discussion, here's my perspective; what if the trauma you suffered long ago is so deeply locked away in the subconscious that the only way to change the present is to first unlock the fear and pain of the past?
I've tried for years to simply use present day techniques to change my processing and I've found I have still been a victim of repressed memories. I thnk it's not the memory that matters, but our ability to process the emotion and that needs to be accessible in some way. What do you think?
Audrey Lowery
www.meditateonline.com
Answers:
Didn't this happen rather a lot, possibly in reverse, in child abuse cases?
Holistic
Answers:
false memory is indeed a common thing, in therapy a person may tell you a story and it may be a false memory , if they beleive it is true then it is to them.
it is important to ask how it os affecting them today and deal with that.
lab
dez
Answers:
Feeling the feelings never changed anything for me, which is a failing of conventional 'talk' therapy. Endlessly reliving a painful event is counterproductive and is what, in my opinion, puts people off therapy.
The event isn't as important as the beliefs you created at that time that later influenced your behavior and emotion. You can eliminate the beliefs without ever reliving the pain and the process will still work.